New Delhi: India recorded 1,00,636 new Covid cases in 24 hours on Monday, 13,824 infections less than Sunday. This is the lowest spike since...
New Delhi: India recorded 1,00,636 new Covid cases in 24 hours on Monday, 13,824 infections less than Sunday. This is the lowest spike since April 5 when the country saw a rise of 96,982 cases in one day. During the same time span, 2,427 more people died of Coronavirus, the Union Health and Family Welfare Ministry said. On Sunday, India had reported 1,14,460 cases, the lowest spike since April 6.
India's overall tally of Covid-19 cases now stands at 2,89,09,975 with 14,01,609 active cases and 3,49,186 deaths till date.
The last few days have seen India's fresh Covid cases on a downward trend, with over one lakh infections every 24 hours. Deaths too have remained below the 3,000 mark. After battling a vicious second wave for weeks, fresh Covid cases went down below the three lakh-mark for the first time on May 17 after touching a record high of 4,14,188 on May 7.
In the last three weeks, India has recorded over 90,000 deaths. India
registered record fatalities due to Covid-19 on May 21 with 4,529 deaths -- the
highest from Covid infection in any country in a day since the Coronavirus
outbreak was reported in Wuhan, China in December 2019. It surpassed 4,468
deaths in the US on January 12, and 4,211 in Brazil on April 6.
A total of 1,74,399 people have been discharged in the last 24 hours, taking the total discharge to 2,71,59,180 till date, according to the Health Ministry. A total of 23,27,86,482 people have been vaccinated so far in the country, including 13,90,916 who were administered vaccines in the last 24 hours, it added.
According to the Indian Council of Medical Research, 36,63,34,111 samples have
been tested up to June 6 for Covid-19. Of these 15,87,589 samples were tested
on Sunday.
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